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Dashed vs Dased - What's the difference?

dashed | dased |

As verbs the difference between dashed and dased

is that dashed is past participle of lang=en while dased is past tense of dase.

As an adjective dashed

is of a line, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.

dashed

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a line, made up of short lines with small gaps between each one and the next.
  • (British, informal) A euphemism for damned .
  • It's a dashed shame that Tarquin failed all his A-levels — we were hoping to get him into Oxford.

    Usage notes

    * Dashed in the sense of "damned" is considered to be upper-class or somewhat old-fashioned.

    Synonyms

    * (line) broken * (damned) darned (especially US)

    See also

    * dotted

    Anagrams

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    dased

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dase)

  • dase

    English

    Verb

    (das)
  • .
  • (Chaucer)
    (Webster 1913)